Our Origin Story

Once upon a time, there were two handsome brothers named Tommy and Ed, who played songs - mostly boring songs about girls.

One day, inspired by the cult-comedy Amiga game 'The Secret of Monkey Island', they wrote a collection of pirate-themed parodies of pop songs. It was an instant hit, and developed into an accidental career as comedy pirate brothers.

Their surprise success had them touring comedy clubs and festivals all over the world. They continued writing songs about the geeky things they love (like Game of Thrones, Dungeons and Dragons, Video Games and Batman) and now they play conventions and festivals, to crowds of very happy geeks.

When they're not touring they write songs, play board games, and live happily ever after.

Tommy: the brainy one

(As written by Ed.)

Tommy is my hyper-intelligent brother.

He is a technology genius: He made his own instrument out of a computer keyboard, he coded our slideshow program, and he even made a program which can write comedy songs by itself.

Tommy is also the 'jokes' guy. He loves jokes. If there's a clever joke in our show, he wrote it.

He loves to study languages, which is possibly the geekiest thing I ever nerd of. If you ever get him in a conversation, ask him the etymology of any word - it's fun trying to catch him out.

Ed: the emotional one

He is massively geeky about games - playing games, making games, learning about game design theory. He loves tabletop roleplaying games, and designed our show Roleplay Cabaret, which is a live, interactive roleplaying show.